Subject: Kinsey Hall - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The west side loading entrance of Josiah Royce Hall as it appeared shortly after construction. The west side of Royce Hall would be greatly altered by the addition of a rehearsal hall and terrace in 1984.
Date:: c.1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: The inscription over the building's south entrance--"Nothing is too wonderful to be true"--is from a quote by Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist. Hoover took this photograph during the ongoing construction of the Westwood campus' first academic year. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: c.January 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: The facade of Royce Hall is just visible through the outer wall of the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building). Both buildings are in their final stage of construction.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Distant aerial view of campus and Westwood Village looking south from an unidentified aircraft. Photographed during the first academic year on the Westwood campus, only six structures were present: The Education Building (Moore Hall), Royce Hall, the Library (College Library, subsequently Powell Library), the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall), the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, and subsequently the Humanities Building), and the Bridge.
Date:: January 21, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Students lined up on the Esplanade on their way into Royce Hall (not pictured). The Physics Biology Building (Humanities Building)--on left--and the Library (Powell Library)--on right--appear in the background. The Esplanade is more generally called Royce quadrangle and is known today as Dickson Plaza. Royce Hall was the center of activity during the mid-February registration for the "second half-year" (Feb. - June) of the first academic year on the new Westwood campus.
Date:: February 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographed from the Library (Powell Library), the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building) is shown in the final stages of construction.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: The Physics-Biology Building as photographed from the Goodyear Blimp looking northwest. The Library (College Library, subsequently Powell Library) appears in the background to the left and Royce Hall is on the right. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: April 28, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: An earthmover excavates the site of the building's north wing addition. The Physics-Biology Building was renamed Kinsey Hall and is today known as the Humanities Building.
Date:: April 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographed from the Library's octagonal dome, the west side of the Physics-Biology Building (Kinsey Hall, subsequently Humanities Building) is shown in the final stages of construction. Westwood Hills appears in the background.
Date:: c.1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

Description:: In view is the main lecture hall entrance of the Chemistry Building (Haines Hall). The Physics-Biology in the background was subsequently known as Kinsey Hall before its current designation as the Humanities Building.
Date:: c.1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoover, Thelner Barton (UCLA 1930)
Collection:: Thelner and Louise Hoover Photographic Collection

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